Bittersweet Moratorium

June 16, 2010

THE coordination meeting between economic ministers at Graha Sawala, the office of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, on Tuesday morning last week, was tense. The several ministers and government senior officials present were discussing the agreement for the moratorium on forest and peatland, when Minister of Agriculture Suswono suddenly referred to the national sugar self-sufficiency program. “How about our program later with the exist

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